This week (Nov 6) was Bitwish’ second aniversary. 
Anniversaries are mostly arbitrary dates, also good excuses to think and reflect a bit.
- People continue to register and vote despite of the zero “marketing” and the big banner/disclaimer explaining that this is not how you communicate your wishes to the Bitwig team. We are 1071 registered users now.
- After two years of Bitwig releases it is clear that the team isn’t participating here even if they might check from time to time this source of feedback coming from a very specific crowd, one of the many they listen to.
- I have been fine tuning Bitwish to focus on the wishlist only (after seeing that other activities didn’t catch up). I have also reducing the need of maintenance. Still, there is this Drafts process that requires work from me, the only active moderator, and that annoys me because I don’t want to be a bottleneck and I’m busy with other things too.
For all these reasons, I’m renewing domain, server and commitment to maintain Bitwish one year more, and then we’ll review the situation again. Given that we have 153 feature requests from which 50 have 2 votes or less, I think it is safe to let new proposals turns into Features automatically without the Drafts stage. The worst that can happen is that a bogus feature request gets a couple of votes before it is detected or reported as flawed, duplicated, already implemented, etc. Even if the forum is mostly quiet, many of these details are being detected by readers.
I will keep a moderator eye and I will keep intervening whenever something or someone is off, but I won’t in the way anymore for people posting their drafts.